been neglecting this thread/board, sorry...i'll listen to everything i missed
made a yt channel for covers [ http://youtube.com/user/brandonedgecovers ]. done 17 of em. once again just avoiding working on my actual new album, a lot of which isn't very new anymore lol
here's 2 of the better covers i guess

Jos: i like how this gets noisy and chaotic. and how dopey the chord progression is. it makes me laugh. i used to go to school with a guy named jos. he runs a brewery across town now, i believe. different town to the old town. but the same town now, feels?

There Is No Ego Within The Blue Man Group: is this an arrested development reference? i'm going to assume it is. okay so. dude did you ever hear of warp records man cos like. nice textures. i don't know how to make these sounds on a computer so i'm always envious when Real Humans (like, people i know of for non-musical reasons) make them. good job. i wouldn't listen to this for fun but it's technically impressive to my sound-design-neophyte ears

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Some live vids of my new band, this was from our third show:

i watched the first one. uh. can't tell what the lyrics are so maybe that'd save it, but what's left to explore with riff-based guitar music like this? particularly with such basic harmony? i dunno it's tight and whatever but why would anyone listen to this song over something else a big band did in the '90s?

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been neglecting this thread/board, sorry...i'll listen to everything i missed
made a yt channel for covers [ http://youtube.com/user/brandonedgecovers ]. done 17 of em. once again just avoiding working on my actual new album, a lot of which isn't very new anymore lol
here's 2 of the better covers i guess

cool. bit slow. vocals could use a bit more oomph – or more processing to blend it into the mix some more. nice simple arrangement. dark. percussion has some good space to it. like the textural change around 1:45

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here's mine

solid. another descendant of gy!be, one of the explosions in the whatevers, good execution, everything by the book for the first three minutes or so, i like the abrupt arrangement change, although the harmony hasn't changed at all really except for a few extended chords, additional texture/layering around 4:20 is nice but doesn't do much for me, probably going to give this until about seven minutes in before stopping – 10+ minutes is long! okay. waiting for a surprise… nope. stopped

Yeah that's me playing. Definitely not trying to sound Texan in any way at all. You know the radio here plays ZZ Top about twice every half hour. I never want to hear them again. I'm definitely going for a heavier Pumpkins type sound a'la Gish.

ditch the strat and go Gibson or pick up a really hot chick rhythm player with a gothic SG and kick ass Marshall rig. what are you playing through?

i watched the first one. uh. can't tell what the lyrics are so maybe that'd save it, but what's left to explore with riff-based guitar music like this? particularly with such basic harmony? i dunno it's tight and whatever but why would anyone listen to this song over something else a big band did in the '90s?

sorry that's not very positive but it's honest

What's left to explore with any music? What was left to explore in the 90's when Zeppelin and Sabbath and Hendrix had already done it all in the late 60's and 70's? If the bands in the 90's had the attitude of "why bother? we'll never be as good as X or Y band" we would have missed out on a lot of great music.

The Pitchfork-bred idea that all music has to be " innovative " leads to crap hipster bands like Animal Collective. As for Radiohead...come on, King of Limbs is a pile of shit. The band CAN did the exact same sound back in 1969 and 1970 ten times over.

And you...You're writing the same indie folk music that everyone and their grandmother is doing now. Why would anyone listen to your music over Mumford & Sons or Bon Iver or Fleet Foxes or anyone else who likes to bore people to death? It works both ways, homie. Put a banjo and ukelele or mandolin on there to make me give even less fucks.

Ultimately I don't really care what decision the listener arrives at. I write and play the kind of music that I want because I like guitar music and that's what I want to hear. I will continue to do so with total disregard for naysayers opinions.

Jos: i like how this gets noisy and chaotic. and how dopey the chord progression is. it makes me laugh. i used to go to school with a guy named jos. he runs a brewery across town now, i believe. different town to the old town. but the same town now, feels?

There Is No Ego Within The Blue Man Group: is this an arrested development reference? i'm going to assume it is. okay so. dude did you ever hear of warp records man cos like. nice textures. i don't know how to make these sounds on a computer so i'm always envious when Real Humans (like, people i know of for non-musical reasons) make them. good job. i wouldn't listen to this for fun but it's technically impressive to my sound-design-neophyte ears

that was nice to read, thank you. Blue Man Group isn't a reference to arrested development but it's something a Blue Man once said in an interview.

This is old stuff however and now Boutros Bubba has split up, I'm in the unashamedely masturbative process of recording a full solo album, similar to the music of crap hipster bands like Animal Collective.

I say nay. How fitting that you have a collage of retards as your background. I don't know why you play guitars though. You should stop. Guitar music is on the way out. Put some mandolins on there. "Look at me I listen to Gang of Four and The Fall and Shellac and then I make music that tries to sound just like them but fails miserably." Of course you would have to be Dutch. I hate the Dutch.

I say nay. How fitting that you have a collage of retards as your background. I don't know why you play guitars though. You should stop. Guitar music is on the way out. Put some mandolins on there. "Look at me I listen to Gang of Four and The Fall and Shellac and then I make music that tries to sound just like them but fails miserably." Of course you would have to be Dutch. I hate the Dutch.